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TIL the Catholic Church purchased the area of the KKK headquarters and turned it into a church

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ZpdvY TIL: million dollar fancy houses in Mesa de Yeguas (colombia) do not have windows or walls as temperature is perfect and are not needed.
J8nv TIL that the 2010 San Bruno Pipeline Explosion created a reported 1000 foot tall wall of flames and a 1.1 Earthquake. It destroyed 38 homes, killing 8 people including 44 year old Jacqueline Greig. She worked at the California Public Utilities Commission trying to replace outdated gas lines.
QkxE TIL an old Persian curse: Guz bi rishit, “May a fart be on your beard.”
KOnWE TIL California has oil rigs hidden in fake buildings in plain sight
698A7 TIL the notion that separate New York City borough accents exist is false. Linguists are in agreement that there is no empirical evidence of systematic differences in NYC English across NYC’s five boroughs. There is no purely geographical variation in speech patterns that occur within NYC.